- ARAB NEWS
- 01 May 2025
Since 1975
Four Chinese coast guard ships intruded into Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture for about one and a half hours Monday.
The four Haijing ships entered Japanese waters south of Minamikojima in the Senkaku chain roughly between 9:30 a.m. (12:30 a.m. GMT) and 9:45 a.m., according to the Japan Coast Guard’s 11th regional headquarters in Naha, the capital of the southernmost prefecture.
The ships left Japanese waters east of the same island roughly between 10:55 a.m. and 11:10 a.m.
Chinese government ships intruded into Japanese territorial waters for the sixteenth time this year, and the first since August 9.
Beijing claims the Japanese-administered islands, called Diaoyu in China.
JIJI Press
